Alicia Z. Russell Center for Assessment and Learning

Pine Point educates the whole child, values diverse experiences, and acknowledges that excellence comes in many forms.  Education must be focused on learning, and all children learn differently.  Pine Point recognizes that both remediation  and acceleration require good information about the learner as well as a dynamic partnership among learner, teacher and parent.
 
The Alicia Z. Russell Center for Assessment and Learning (CAL) supports the School’s mission as a resource for students, teachers and parents to understand how individuals learn best in order to provide the optimal environment for academic success and social and emotional well-being.  CAL serves as a resource for both Pine Point and the larger community.  Clinicians work directly with students and consult with teachers and parents.
 
The CAL team consists of a school psychologist, a learning specialist, two speech and language pathologists, a math resource person, and an administrative director.  Initial screenings are completed by clinicians as part of the Pine Point program when classroom teachers feel more information is need to tailor a program for a child.  Results are then shared with the classroom teachers and a plan of action is discussed and implemented.  The team meets regularly with the classroom teacher to assess the individual’s progress during intervention.

Full psycho-educational evaluations and speech and language evaluations are available to Pine Point families and clients outside of the PPS community.   Tutoring services are also available through the Center.

Stanford Math (EPGY)

The School has a partnership with Stanford University to provide an accelerated math program for qualifying individuals.  Students qualify for EPGY by meeting Pine Point's criteria for excellence in mathematical thinking and computation, and maturation. Students, after being identified by test scores (DST) and teacher recommendation, must then score three standard deviations above the norm in the CMAT or for his or her respective grade.  For more information contact Diana Owen.

Assessments 

The following are some of the assessment instruments that the clinicians may use.  Evaluations are tailored to the referral concerns and needs of the student.  The clinicians will recommend testing protocols.

Administrative Director:  Susan Kozel, M.Ed., Assistant Head of Pine Point School, Director of CAL

• Parent Liaison          

Psychological:  Melinda Blum, Psy.D., School Psychologist

• Wechsler Intelligence Scales – Fourth Edition (WPPSI IV; WISC IV; WAIS IV)
• Child and Parent Clinical Interviews (Developmental History)
• Review of Academic Records
• Behavior Assessment System for Children – 2 (BASC – 2)
• Brown Attention Deficit Disorder Scales
• Beck Youth Inventories of Emotional and Social Impairment
• Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI)
• Parenting Stress Index – Third Edition
• Bender Gestalt Test of Visual Motor Integration
• House – Tree – Person Drawings
• Beery Test of Visual Motor Integration – Fourth Edition (TVMI - IV)
• Classroom Observation

Educational:  Diane Seltzer, B.F.A., M.A., M.Ed., Learning Specialist

• Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – Second Edition (WIAT II)
• Woodcock Johnson – Third Edition (WJ – III)
• Test of Written Language – Second Edition (TOWL – II)
• Grey Oral Reading- 4th Edition
• Key Math
• Test of Written Spelling – 4th Edition
• Detroit Test of Learning Aptitude – 3rd Edition
• CTOPP
• Phonological Awareness Test
• TOWRE
• Lindamood Auditory Perception Test
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-4)
• Brigance Test of Basic Skills
• Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Test 

Speech and Language:  Kate Doyle MS, CCC-SLP; Geri Theodore, MS, CCC-SLP

• Test of Early Language Development (TELD)
• Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals – Fourth Edition (CELF – 4)
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Third Edition (PPVT – 3)
• Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test Revised (EOWPVT)
• Test of Narrative Language
• Test of Language Development (TOLD)
• Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL)
• Test of Word Finding (TWF)
• Oral Peripheral Exam
• Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation
• Informal Speech Intelligibility Assessment

Mathematics Specialist/Liason for Stanford Math Partnership (EPGY):  Diana Owen, BA, MAT

• Comprehensive Mathematical Abilities Test: CMAT
• Test of Mathematical Abilities for Gifted Students:  TOMAG
• Diagnostic Screening Test: DST
• Key Math

 Fee Structure

For more information, please call Susan Kozel at 860-535-0606, ext. 125 or e-mail SKB@pinepoint.org